If you haven’t caught up yet with the Cats & Conjure series yet, now’s your chance: the first boxset is available in ebook. This is the first three novellas all in one release, about 300 pages or 95K words.

The details:Adelaide Deveraux has lived a quiet life in the country after inheriting her late grandmother’s home, but that life is interrupted when a tiger shows up at her door, shifting into a very injured—and very naked—human man in need of help.

Erik Wells has been on the run his whole life, now from the underground gladiator ring who abduct shifters and have them fight to the death for entertainment. Though he needs to keep running, but something about Addie draws him to her home and her care. The tiger in him senses it: there’s more to Addie than apparent at first glance—more to her knack for working with roots and herbs; more to her prophetic dreams; more to the secrets buried in her family history.

A bond they try to deny draws them together as Addie heals Erik, throwing the pair in the path of the psychopathic sorcerer hunting him. From there, the peril’s just beginning, for Addie is more powerful than anyone could’ve guessed and dangerous people seek to exploit her magic.

And no, this isn’t the end of Addie and Erik’s story–there are three more novellas I’m hoping to release this year. If you dig these books, please tell your friends and consider leaving reviews–they’re my lowest-selling titles (as much as I love them) and while I’m determined to finish the series for readers, I take a financial hit on each one. Any extra support the stories get, I greatly appreciate.

I hope to have news about Alley Cat VERY soon–I’m aiming for a late Feb/March release, but that’ll depend on how the writing of it goes.

Addie and Erik’s journey continues in a brand new novella. It’ll be out on Friday and right now you can preorder it at AllRomanceeBooks for 10% off. On Friday it’ll be for sale on Smashwords and Kindle. It might not be on other sites until the new year, but you can get your favourite formats at ARe and Smashwords.

Cats in Heat came out a week and a half ago. Some readers so far seemed to like it and sales are trickling in, so I’m working on the next in the series, Cat Scratch Fever. I’m hoping to get this done and up for preorder by the end of the month.

As I’ve said…pretty much everywhere, this is a series that follows the same couple from novella to novella. The endings aren’t cliffhangers per se, but I leave threads to pick up with the next one. This form of serialized storytelling really appeals to me as I like traditional paranormal romance and urban fantasy books that utilize it, so I thought I’d give it a try.

I am not attempting to just “piecemeal” together a larger story out of tiny bits–each novella is 100 pages or more, so a substantial chunk of story with forward plot movement and a conclusion. There will be three to four of them, and I’m aiming to get one out every two months or so, with a “boxset” of all of them perhaps by next summer. If you want to wait until that time to check it out, I completely understand and I hope you enjoy the stories when you get to them.

For those still complaining about the length of my older books from last year, I hear you. And I’m sorry. As I’ve explained, writing for a publisher meant writing to a certain length to keep in a lower price range. I could spend time right now going back and revising all of those stories to add to the total word count, or I could write new books for you. I’m choosing the latter, and as I’ve said, my new situation means I can write longer works and keep lower prices on them. Writing to complain to me about the older novellas doesn’t fix anything (it just makes me feel badly and therefore harder to work on new things).

Finally, I do not have news for you about I Who Have Nothing. The book isn’t ready yet. I will update here when I have something new to say. I also keep getting emails about this, and yes, I know, I am no longer listed on the publisher’s website. This is because I am no longer with them but releasing books on my own. I promise I will blog as soon as I have further information about release dates and the like.

As always, thank you for reading, and I appreciate the support. It’s back to work on Addie and Erik for me…